Amity Gaige s essays, articles, and stories have appeared in various publications, including the "Yale Review", "Los Angeles Times", "O: The Oprah Magazine", "Literary Review", and in a 2009 collection of essays called "Feed Me". She is the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship, a McDowell Colony Fellowship, and a Baltic Writing Residency Fellowship, and is currently the visiting writer at Amherst College. She lives in Amherst, Massachusetts, with her family.